Single-player games like Hollow Knight: Silksong
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Hollow Knight: Silksong, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Nine Sols
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
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MIO: Memories in Orbit
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
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Rebel Transmute
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
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Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.
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La-Mulana 2
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
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Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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The Messenger
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Single-player alternative to Hollow Knight: Silksong — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!